Tag: death

La mort de Sardanapale (1844)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) 1844 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La Mort de Sardanapale, esquisse 1826–1827 Musée du Louvre, Paris     Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Mort de…

Exposición del cuerpo de San Buenaventura (c.1629)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Exposición del cuerpo de San Buenaventura (Exhibition of the Body of Saint Bonaventure) c.1629 Oil on canvas, 245 x 220 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted for the church of the San Buenaventura college in Seville, around 1629;…

The Death of the Wicked Man

Blake, William (1757-1827) The Death of the Wicked Man s.d. Watercolor, 20.2 × 25.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Third sheet in a series of nineteen, commissioned by the publisher Robert H. Cromek to illustrate the collection The Grave by the…

Hope I (1903)

Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Hope I (Hoffnung I) 1903 Oil on canvas, 189.2 x 67 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Study: Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Standing Pregnant Woman with a Man 1902–1903 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton    

Manet sur son lit de mort (1883)

Prins, Pierre-Ernest (1838-1913) Manet sur son lit de mort (Manet on His Deathbed) 1883 Pastel, 32.4 × 46 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)

La Mort des Fantômes (1928)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La Mort des Fantômes (The Death of Ghosts) 1928 Gelatin silver print, 13.9 x 8.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The great Surrealist painter of philosophical conundrums was also a prolific photographer who sometimes used his…

Masque mortuaire de Modigliani (c.1920)

Kisling, Moïse (1891-1953) Masque mortuaire de Modigliani (Death Mask of Modigliani) c.1920 Bronze, 21.6 × 14 × 12.1 cm, 1.8 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920)

La Morte di Cleopatra (c.1645-1655)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) c.1645–1655 Oil on canvas, 95 × 75 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The subject, from Plutarch’s Lives (1st century A.D.), is Cleopatra’s suicide by an asp bite following the…